Statistics and Probability

Probability

________- is the chance that something will happen.

Statistic

________- value that tells or describe something about a sample.

Statistics

________- is the SCIENCE of Planning studies, collecting, organizing, presenting, analyzing or summmarizing, interpreting, and drawing conclusion based on the data.

Variable

________- a characteristic that is observable and measurable in every unit of a universe.

Inferential

________- using a sample to interpret and draw conclusion based on the data or about a population.

Sample space

________- all possible outcomes of an experiment.

Survey

________- This refers to a method of collecting information about a population in which direct contact is made with the units of study through systematic means such as questionnaires and interview schedules.

Convenience

________ Sampling- is a process of picking out people in the most ________ and fastest way to get reactions immediately.

Parameter

________- It is a value that tells or describe something about a population.

Purposive Sampling

________- It is based on certain criteria laid down by the researcher.

Frame

________- a collection of units, (referred to as sampling units) in a population; the materials or devices, which delimit, identify and allow access to the elements of the target population.

Universe

________- collection or set of entities from whom we go the data.

Ordinal

________- variable are rank ordered according to their magnitude or intensity.

Qualitative

________- non- numeric and express categorical attributes.

Organization

________- determining /ascertaining manner of of presenting the data into tables /graphs or chart so that logical and statistical conclusion can be drawn from collected measurement.

Descriptive

________- collection, organization, presentation, analysis /summarization of data.

Leptokurtic

________- High degree of peakedness, Kurtosis> 0.

Population

________- the set of all possible values of a variable.

Multi

________- stage Sampling- Selection of the sample is done in two or more steps or stages, with sampling units varying in each stage.

Sample

________- subgroup of a population.

Statistical experiment

________- used to describe any process by which several chance observations are obtained.

standard deviation

STANDARD SCORE or Z- SCORE- equivalent value of a raw score expressed in terms of the mean and ________ of the distribution.

Non Probability Sampling

________- The sample is not a proportion of the population and there is no system in selecting the sample.

O Census

________ or complete enumeration- This is a survey in which data are to be collected from all elements of the target population.

Accidental Sampling

________- There is no system of selection but only those whom the researcher or interviewer meets by chance.

Quota Sampling

________- There is specified number of persons of certain types is included in the sample.

Sample survey

O ________- This refers to the gathering of information from only a fraction of the population chosen to represent the whole.

Inferential

________- Percentages and sample size.